Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameFrancis HURT 25
Birth Date1765
Birth PlacePrince Edward County, Virginia
Death Date10 Aug 1816 Age: 51
Death PlaceBuckingham, Buckingham County, Virginia
OccupationRW Soldier
FatherBenjamin HURT , 144 (1746-1796)
MotherJudith FORREST , 145 (1750-1803)
Spouses
Birth Date1765
Birth PlacePrince Edward County, Virginia
Death PlaceBuckingham County, Virginia
Family ID3590
Marr Date27 Jul 1785
Marr PlacePrince Edward County, Virginia
Notes for Francis HURT
Francis Hurt, Virginia

Francis Hurt, a Virginia soldier of the Revolution (not further identified), (Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution, 1775-1783, by John Hastings Gwathmey, Page 405.

(Note by O.H.: This Francis Hurt has not been identified, but he may have been the Francis Hurt who married Peggy McTaggart in Prince Edward County, Va. on 7-27-1785 and who may have been a son of Benjamin and Judith Forest of Prince Edward County.

On Ancestry from andrea smith.

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HURT: English (chiefly Nottinghamshire): variant of Hart. German: topographic name from Middle High German hurt ‘hurdle’, ‘woven fence’. Dutch: nickname, presumably for a pugnacious or aggressive person, from Middle Dutch hort, hurt ‘strike’, ‘blow’, ‘attack’. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names Oxford University Press

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(1) information received from Betty Lawrence in Oct 1997 lists Francis as child #6 but b. date places him as child #1. His information has not turned up on other FGS for this family.

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Notes for Margaret “Peggy” (Spouse 1)
Informaton received from Betty Lawrence in Oct 1997.
Notes for Francis & Margaret “Peggy” (Family)
!information received from Betty Lawrence in Oct 1997.
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